Word: concetti
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Dates: during 1975-1975
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...respirator that is keeping Karen Quinlan alive would be "extremely dangerous," and his fellow doctors must not accept even an indirect form of euthanasia (mercy killing), "which renounces therapy." The Vatican daily L'Osservatore Romano then published a similar commentary by one of its staff members, Father Gino Concetti. He wrote: "It is impossible to support the claim of the right of 'death with dignity.' A right to death does not exist...Love for life, even a life reduced to a 'ruin,' drives one to protect life with every possible care...
...this then the Vatican view? Father Trapasso's diocesan authorities insisted that both comments were merely private opinions, an accurate statement since only unsigned editorials in L'Osservatore are used to reflect papal thinking. In Rome, one theology professor fumed, "Concetti is no moral theologian, and what he wrote is stupid." Said Father Sean O'Riordan, a moral theologian at Rome's Alphonsianum College: "Concetti's article is clearly contrary to the teachings of Pope Pius XII and the unanimous moral tradition existing for centuries...
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